i just purchased a new laptop and everything was working fine yesterday but today i am having trouble with certain websites, most are fine, however, i cannot open the sign in page to hotmail, i can sign in to facebook but none of the posts load up, and i cannot sign into skype. help please!

You may want to install an additional browser on your computer such as Chrome or Firefox to see if you experience the same issues. If you don't, then its an IE configuration issue. If you do experience the issue, its either your malware protection software, or something else on the network.